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The past year's unfair dismissal rulings have highlighted new challenges facing employers, while providing important insights and lessons. Watch this webcast to understand what lies ahead in this jurisdiction.

Employees' participation in employer-organised medical appointments should be "informed and empowered", a commission has ruled in compensating a worker for unfair dismissal.

A report into bullying, s-xual harassment and abuse in parliamentary workplaces has identified drivers and made recommendations that have critical relevance for all workplaces, a lawyer says.

An employer could have at least tried to end its employment relationship with an "unreliable" worker on "some agreeable terms", instead of sacking him without any procedural fairness, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

It was fair and reasonable to discipline an employee who participated in her daughter's recruitment process with "blatant disregard" for her conflict of interest, a commission has ruled.

To ignore and isolate a colleague at work "is to dehumanise that person", the Fair Work Commission has said in finding two employees were fairly sacked for bullying.

Procedural flaws have brought down an employer's unfair dismissal defence, with the Fair Work Commission finding they outweighed an employee's divisive, defiant, intimidating and bullying behaviour.

A manager treated his common law duties to his employer with contempt, embroiling subordinates and third parties in his "brazen" misappropriation of stock and money, a court has ruled.

An employee sacked for misconduct has won a rehearing of her adverse action claim, with a court accepting her employer might have included workplace complaints among the "behavioural issues" it considered when dismissing her.

An employer was entitled to direct a white-collar employee to undertake a dr-g test after allegations he was slurring and swaying at work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.